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By Don Del Rosso
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
There seemed to be no end in sight.
For two days and more than 10 hours, they attacked Dominion Virginia Power’s proposed transmission line through the Piedmont.
In speeches long and short, impassioned and measured, opponents from Fauquier, Rappahannock, Culpeper, Loudoun and elsewhere hammered away at familiar themes.
The utility has failed to demonstrate a need for the planned 500,000-volt line, they told the State Corporation Commission (SCC) during a public hearing last Thursday and Friday in the Fauquier High School auditorium.
Dominion gave no serious consideration to alternatives to satisfy Northern Virginia’s future energy needs, they argued. The proposed line would destroy vistas and pristine land under easement, diminish property values, degrade air quality and compromise agricultural operations, tourism and historic sites, critics told SCC Hearing Examiner Alexander F. Skirpan Jr..
Ninety-four of the 106 speakers asked Skirpan to recommend denial of the proposed line. (He will make a recommendation to the SCCTs three-judge panel, which will decide the matter.)
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